Hi, On Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 17:08:43, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> It seems to me, as a fedora user that the suse beta methodology is a > little counter productive. > > With fedora rawhide, you install a test cd, or enable the development > repo in yum, then run your update. You can continue to get the latest > packages simply by running yum update. I've upgraded from FC4 -> FC5t1, > FC5t2 and now test 3 is due out in a few days and all i need to do is > run yum update! It'll only download the latest packages, and as most of > the OS stays the same as yesterdays updates it is only a small download > size. You do exactly the same with SUSE. There is no difference at all except names. With SUSE Linux 10.1, you install a test cd, or enable the development repo in YaST/yum, then run your update. You can continue to get the latest packages simply by running YaST/yum update (on new installation sources and/or factory). Ive upgraded from 10.0 to 10.1 beta1 and now beta4 is out today all i need to do is run YaST/yum update (after adding the new installationsource)! It'll donwload nearly all packages because SUSE developers actually do something between betas ;) and because our build system produces only self-contained installations repos (everything is rebuild against the dependencies inside the tree). As you see there is no difference at all. Why do you think there is? Well the fact that we have a semi-broken packagemanager in YaST at the moment is explained in detail elsewhere. Would that not be the case (like cthiels example of using the non broken y2pmsh) there would be no difference at all except the fact that we have a kick ass build system that produces consistent installation trees. So to summarize: Fedora is missing a build system... (They are so 80ies! 8) Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, http://hennevogel.de "To die. In the rain. Alone." Ernest Hemingway --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
